Easily distracted by shiny objects.

April 30, 2013

Out and about on the 'net

It's cool and rainy today, as it was yesterday, good reading and (net) surfing weather.

Nice interview with Roy Edroso.A little personal history and how he founded Alicublog. These days he aspires to reach old age. He is illuminating on the topic of the working class who were able to have a solid standard of living for a while but are now being told that is out of the question for Americans any more. I knew the minute that Reagan was elected President that the poor could kiss their a**es goodbye, but I never thought the working class would go down too.

The bad news on Roundup People use it indiscriminately around here, because this is a jungle. They think it's safe, but now it turns out there are residues of it in food after all. I'm not touching any GMO corn or soy products. But even organic foods are no doubt tainted with the stuff. It's everywhere. We don't and never have used Roundup on our lot, but it does not mean it's not in the food we grow on our property, because our neighbors use so much of it. On the highway, the crews come, cut back the vegetation and then heavily Roundup everything. It looks terrible and accelerates erosion. Well, maybe if people understand that it's poison they will stop using it.

Wisewebwoman: Even in these days of corporate malfeasance, Monsanto stands out.
janinsanfran: Well, it is an ethnicity rather than a race designation. Here it is actually something akin to a race designation. Yes, it's odd and hard to explain. They were not quite white. I'm part Portuguese, and my husband's cousin thinks it's funny to call me a "Pordagee" and think that accounts for some of my personal traits. She does not get it that she's being impolite (to put it nicely).
Perhaps a parallel would be the Northern European attitudes toward Southern Europeans. As far as I understand, the Portuguese who came here were from the Azores.

"Well, maybe if people understand that it's poison they will stop using it."

Oh, my dear, sweet, Hattie. It is cute that you can still believe this. But then, I can understand your naiveté: You ARE a year younger than yours truly!
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P.S. Unfortunately, one of the tenants of the survival of the fittest is to mistrust/slander/de-humanize anyone who can be classified as "other" from ourselves.